Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 14:44:27 10/01/01
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On October 01, 2001 at 16:34:45, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: >Assuming that only 10% of the world plays chess and the average number of games >that each person will play to be 10,000 games during a lifetime, then we have >between 10,000,000,000 and 20,000,000,000 chessplayers since the game began. >Each game is on average 60 moves. > >10,000 x 20,000,000,000 x 60 = number of moves/positions that have been played > >If you figure that openings played are similar then we can guess that the number >of different positions would be 1/10th the total or 1,200,000,000,000,000 >different positions. > >Assuming that the human species will be here for less than another 1,000,000 >years and the above data obtains then we will have a total of >1,200,000,000,000,000,000,000 chess moves in the course of human existence. In a million years, will Fritz version 844733 be the strongest, or will it be Tiger 997142? ;-)
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